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...Childs (N) 3:51.8. 0000m steeplechase--1 Fowler (N) 9:15.5; 2. Andy Regan (H) 9:21.0; 3. Bruce Weber (H) 9:30.1. 5000m--1. Harrison (N) 14:41.5; 2. Eric Schuler (H) 14:54.7; 3. Duquette (N) 15:10.8. 1600m relay--1. HARVARD 3:21 6 (Burney 49.5. Hudson 51.3. Midlo 49.8. Jones 50.9); 2. Northeastern...
800m--1. A, Williams, 1:51.66 2. Pr. Vot 3. H. Burney 4. Y. Seeley 5. Pr. Bettam...
...Even in mundane ways, Americans like to look ahead. In Manhattan last week, long before anyone ate a turkey, a giant spruce tree from New Jersey was raised over the Rockefeller Center ice-skating rink. The Christmas season was already under way. In the Northern California lumber town of Burney, Don Whitman, 67, closed down his barbershop and his wife Edna locked her antique shop, and the two of them renewed a family tradition: cutting Christmas trees. "It's a happiness business," says Mrs. Whitman. "I imagine all the excitement and joy connected with every Christmas tree...
...Bobby, a nervous, denim-clad teenager who serves as Donny's sometime-assistant and partner in petty crime. Donny's theory is somewhat simplistic, summarized in the phrase "Action talks and bullshit walks." The point of this diatribe seems to be that everyone must look out for themselves. Stuart Burney's Donny seems painfully aware of this maxim, finding it distasteful, perhaps, but true. Burney lends an air of realism to his character; his Bonny is like thousands of backstreets city kids aware of the odds against them and unable to score anything more than marginal victories against the system...
...that are sweeping the Paris Opera mark the triumph of this spring's new sensation: Christoph Willibald Gluck's Alceste. They mark the triumph too of the "reformers" who are determined to abolish the exaggerated trills and cadenzas of the Italian stage. Writes Britain's Charles Burney, author of the erudite new General history of Music: "The chevalier Gluck is simplifying music . . . He tries all he can to keep his music chaste." Retorts popular Librettist Pietro Metastasio: Gluck is a composer of "surprising fire...